The International Finance Corporation (IFC) in collaboration with SME and Special Programme Department (SME&SPD) of Bangladesh Bank (BB) will train officials of the country’s four state-owned commercial banks and two specialised banks for capacity building on SME market segmentation database.

They will organise a brainstorming session, a training of trainers (ToT) programme and feedback session for the officials to develop capacity for better and early implementation of the database.

IFC officials and GM of SMESPD of Bangladesh Bank came at the decision when an IFC delegation visited SMESPD recently.

The brainstorming session will be held with the relevant officials of four SCBs and two specialised banks on 18 March at the central bank. To explore ideas to enrich user-friendly database system, another session will be held at Bangladesh Bank Training Academy (BBTA) on 27 March.

The ToT programme will be held for the officers of monitoring department of BB branches on the database. Two officials from each branch will be nominated while one officer from each commercial bank will also be included.

The previously trained ToT participants will be present and share their experiences and problems in preparation and implementation of the database on 29 March.

The Daily Sun/Bangladesh/ 15th March 2012